Tag: Missouri History
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The Iowa Land Patents of Christian Tenebahn
In the spring of 1852, several Tenebahn families emigrated to the U.S. from Germany. From New Orleans they took a steamboat to Dubuque, IA. There, they split up, some traveling to Minnesota via wagon train. The Christian Tenebahn family remained in east central Iowa, homesteading for about three years. This is their untold story.
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Lots 188 and 189 of McGee’s Addition
In June, 1857, pioneering immigrants, Christian and Caroline Tonebohn, purchased a residential lot in the speculative McGee’s Addition in, what was then, the town of Kansas, Missouri. The lot, then Missouri prairie, is now situated in the heart of downtown Kansas City, MO. Here’s how that happened.
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Johann Friedrich Daniel Wendt – Soldier, Immigrant, and Farmer
We know quite a lot about Max and Minnie Wendt after they settle, by 1870, first in Moberly, MO, then St. Louis, MO, finally Kansas City, KS. Before that; before they emigrated from Germany, we have few details about their whereabouts and lives. Here, we present what is known and unknown with a few theories…
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Discovering Lemuel Hopper
Sometimes, while doing genealogy research, you discover a person who you would have wanted to meet in person. Lemuel Hopper is one of those people. His life was brimming with adventure and self-reinvention. Here is his story.
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The Way West, 1857 – Ohio to Missouri and Beyond
In April 1857, Harrison Jenkins and family started westward from Jackson County Ohio leading a party of 3-4 other families. Their destination was NW Missouri. Let’s take a brief trip back in time, reassemble the lives of these western migrating pioneers, and see what happened to them.
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